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The Reluctant Debutante. Rex Harrison and Wife Kay Kendall, a spicy broth of a girl, ducking in and out of the soup in Director Vincente Minnelli's light-hearted peek at Mayfair manners and amorals (TIME, Aug. 18).
The Reluctant Debutante (Avon; MGM) in its stage incarnation was the kind of drawing-room comedy that critics called "pleasant" for want of anything worse to say about it. But transferred to the screen and run through a high-speed Mixmaster of comic invention by Rex Harrison and Wife Kay...
Comedienne Kendall glides like an angular jellyfish through the role of Lady Broadbent, an elegant snob who sets out to make Husband Rex's teen-age American daughter (by his first marriage) the toast of the London "season." The toast, Sandra Dee, takes a lot of buttering up. After...
The amorous kiddies take off for a night's nightclubbing. As Kay paces in the wee hours, Rex reaches philosophically for the brandy. "After all," he muses, "it isn't how much we drink that matters. It's how much she drinks." Actress Kendall herself, in the...
It is. William Douglas Home's screenplay, adapted from his own stage version, tinkles with a profusion of grace notes that, in skillful hands, can often substitute for a full score. The pace, thanks to Vincente Minnelli's direction, is Pall Mall. Comedienne Kendall cocks an eyebrow clear...